The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.

Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.

performance is an act of faith.

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.

People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then every increase in population means a decrease in all three. The crowd is a threat to every single being.